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Abstract
Pregnancy is a time of increased energy and nutrient needs for a woman in order to meet the needs of the growing fetus and of maternal tissues associated with pregnancy. Proper dietary balance is necessary to ensure sufficient energy intake for adequate growth of fetus without drawing on mother’s own tissues to maintain her pregnancy.
Maternal malnutrition is influenced not only by lack of adequate nutrition but also influenced by factors like social and psychological factors, nutritional knowledge of mothers and biological changes that influence perception of eating patterns during pregnancy.
Advancement of individual nutrition knowledge (NK) provides new information which may stimulate changing of attitude and subsequently result in enhancement of dietary practices.
Aim of the study:
To assess Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices regarding maternal nutrition among pregnant women attending ANC clinic.
Subjects and method:
This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study was done among pregnant women attending ANC clinic at Western Health Center in Minia City during the period from November 2016 to March 2017.
An interviewing questionnaire used in the study that includes: Socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric history and history of associated diseases, knowledge, attitude and practice of the women towards their nutrition during pregnancy.
Results:
1. As regard to socio-demographic characteristics: (75%) lied in the age group between (20-35) years. (63.9%) had the level of secondary school. (89.7 %) were housewives and (67.4%) earned greater than 2000 pounds/month as monthly average income.
2. As regard to present obstetric and medical history: (36.1%) had four ANC visits, (51.6%) were in third trimester, (67.9%) were multi-gravida, (64.3%) had C/S, more than half (52.7%) of the multigravida women had birth spacing between 2-3 years. Among those who suffered health problems (21.3%); anemia was the main problem (16.3%).
3. This study showed that (82.9%) of participants had adequate knowledge, (58.9%) had a positive attitudes and (58.7%) had good practices about nutrition during pregnancy.
4. There was a positive significant relationship between age, educational status of mothers, monthly average income, antenatal care visits, gestational age, gravidity, birth spacing, mode of previous delivery, and associated diseases had a statistically significant association with the knowledge. Furthermore, the most significant predicting factors for knowledge in this study were high women education followed by monthly income and attitudes. Monthly income was significant predicting factor for nutritional practices during pregnancy.